Last month, after the terrorist attacks in Paris, Nature published a Q & A with an anthropologist who studies the murderous motivations of Islamic extremists. He discussed socio-cultural factors and an allure to a radical ideology. That may help explain Islamic attacks against "infidels" in Europe and the United States, but then what's driving suicide bombers in Somalia, Pakistan, and Iraq where it's Muslims killing Muslims? Is there a common denominator? On Twitter, Jeff Goodell points suggestively to his current story at Rolling Stone magazine.
You can't talk about "root causes" of terrorism without talking about climate change. http://t.co/pyDKlybWEI via @rollingstone — Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell) February 17, 2015
I took the bait. It turns out that Goodell doesn't talk about a terrorism/climate change nexus. His piece is largely about the Pentagon taking climate change seriously (a storycirculating since October), while hawkish Republicans are not. So this puts the GOP and ...
